Great Britain: Friend to Peacocks

As she was completing her
autobiography last April, Dame Edith Sitwell was asked how she felt.
"Dying, but apart from that I'm all right," she replied. A little
later, she remarked that as a Roman Catholic (she became a convert in
1955), "I know I ought not to dread death, but I am so conceited that I
simply cannot imagine how the world would get on without me." In
London's St. Thomas Hospital last week, at 77, Edith Sitwell died of a
heart attack, thus putting the world to the test.